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Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev has stated the country’s capital city Astana will play a role if Almaty wins its bid to host the 2022 winter Olympic Games and has played down concerns over the level of investment needed to stage the event.

PyeongChang 2018 organisers have signed off on an 85.9bn won (€62.9m/$78.1m) plan to address one of the key venue concerns for South Korea’s staging of the winter Olympic Games, while another senior political figure has rejected the idea of the country sharing hosting rights to the event.

Italy has become the second nation to confirm a bid for the 2024 Olympic Games, with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi stating officials will seek to support Rome’s candidacy by including other cities in their summer Games masterplan.

Sports federations based in Switzerland, such as Fifa and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), are set to be subject to greater financial scrutiny by banks in the European country under a new bill passed today (Friday) by Swiss lawmakers.

José Perurena, the president of the International World Games Association (IWGA), has hailed the approval of a recommendation at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in Monaco this week that will result in a closer working relationship between the two parties.

A South Korean governor has rejected a proposal from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to move various events from the 2018 winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang to another country in order to help save money.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) unveiled plans today (Tuesday) for new headquarters and announced that the Peruvian capital of Lima will host the organisation’s 2017 Session during which the host city for the 2024 summer Olympics will be selected.

The Olympic movement is bracing itself for significant changes after International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach secured almost total support for his ‘Agenda 2020’ measures in Monaco today (Monday).

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has proposed that bobsleigh and luge events are moved outside of South Korea for the 2018 winter Olympic Games in order to save money for local organisers in PyeongChang.

The German Olympic Committee, the DOSB, has confirmed that it will put forward Berlin or Hamburg as an applicant city to host the 2024 summer Olympic Games.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has denied reports that the staging of the 2018 winter Olympics is under threat due to a financial dispute between the Korean government and Gangwon Province.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has insisted there would be “no winners” if the 2022 Fifa World Cup clashes with the winter Olympic Games of the same year.

South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) and International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive committee member Sam Ramsamy has said the country is “readying” a bid for the 2024 Olympic Games.

This month in Monaco, under President Thomas Bach’s sweeping Agenda 2020 reforms, the IOC (International Olympic Committee) will vote to change the rules around bidding for the Olympic Games. Elisha Chauhan asked industry experts how they believe this will affect the Olympic Movement.

Kevin Roberts: What's not to like about the IOC's proposals for change?

International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president John Coates wants Tokyo 2020 to stage Olympic Games events outside of the Japanese capital in order to curtail spiralling costs.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has opened up the prospect of future summer Olympic Games being staged in multiple countries, as president Thomas Bach today (Tuesday) unveiled the 40 proposals that make up ‘Agenda 2020’.

Beijing 2022 has stressed its commitment to a cost-effective and sustainable winter Olympic Games as it made its first official bid presentation today (Friday) at the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) General Assembly in Bangkok, Thailand.